Post Editor for Google+ v1.1.0

v1.1.0 addresses most of the issues reported with the first version. It still only focuses on the main post box. I know a lot of v1.0 users want it to work on comments as well. It's next on my ToDo list!

Google+ doesn't offer a ton of formatting options for your posts and the ones it does have you have to remember the markup to use. This isn't so big a deal for those of us who use it regularly or have been around since the beginning. However, it comes up often when I talk with new or infrequent users. So I created a Google Chrome extension called 'Post Editor for Google+' to help!

Post Editor for Google+ adds formatting buttons to the bottom of the post box so you can easily style your posts. It also includes a variety of symbols that you can automatically inject into your post.

About Paul Spoerry

I’m a groovy cat who’s into technology, Eastern Thought, and house music. I’m a proud and dedicated father to the coolest little guy on the planet (seriously, I'm NOT biased). I’m fascinated by ninjas, the Internet, and anybody who can balance objects on their nose for long periods of time.

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you guys ought to also install the AutoSave extension. suppose i'm writing a message in this here lil' boxey thing and chrome decides to go fuck me and break somehow, canceling my message. or google+ decides to refresh and i lose my message. AutoSave automatically backs up your recent inputs and you can simply hit the little red disk to promptly put that big long post you worked so laboriously right back where it belongs. you're probably not even missing a single character.

p.s. no, i am not affiliated in any way with AutoSave. just damned tired of gplus breaking and losing my long winded posting.

p.p.s you can also highlight text and use ctrl-i, ctrl-b for italics and bold respectively. i'm not aware of keybindings for underline so the post editor is awesome help for that, as well, the symbols.

+Daniel Koeker I can certainly add more. The very first version I made had so many that they scrolled off the screen and became a little unusable so I paired it down to what's in there now. I've considered creating an options page for the extension and loading that up with symbols and letting people pick which ones they want to show in the drop down. Might be cool for a future release.

+Ron Kaiser Some people have to restart Chrome. No idea why… I've never had to and I've tried it on several computers. Also… the elements required need to be present before the extension can attach to them. So if things are loading slowly (like sometimes the chat bar takes longer than I'd expect on my Chromebook) and you try to share to quickly it might not be there. Often you can just hit cancel and then go to share again and it'll display.